Line Tool

when to use to draw a straight line between two exact points properties thickness line thickness style stroke pattern (solid, dashed, dotted) cap end cap style round gives semicircular ends square extend gives square ends extended by half the thickness length line length in pixels in edit state you can change only the length while keeping the angle angle line angle in degrees in edit state you can change only the angle while keeping the length how to use press ' y ' drag from the start point to the end point a shape layer containing the line is created hold ' shift ' while dragging to snap the angle to 45º increments after creation you can type exact length / angle values in the settings panel you can also drag the bounding box handles or the rotation disc to transform the shape non destructively to paint or erase directly on top of a shape layer with brush tools, you have to rasterize the parametric layer into paint layer after rasterization , the layer's shape parameters can no longer be edited example